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N. MQTHOMPSON AND E. F. OLEARY.

COPY HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 050.20. 1915.

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APPLICATON FILED DEC-20' 1915.

Patented June 17, 1919.

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NELLE M. THOMPSON AND EDWARD F. OLEARY, OF PUEBLO, COLORADO.

COPY-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 17 1919.

Application filed December 20, 1915. SerialNo. 67,898.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, NELLE M. THOMPSON and EDWARD F. OLEARY, citizens of the United States, and residents of Pueblo, in the county of Pueblo and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Copy-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to copy holders and particularly to copy holders designed and intended for holding stenotype notes. The principal object of our invention is the provision of a simple, compact machine adapted to receive the notes in the condition in which they are taken from the stenotype machine, that is to say with the last part of the dictation on the outside of the roll, to reroll the notes by power driven means so as to expose the beginning of the dictation, and then to gradually wind the notes back on the first spool, this last winding being automatically accomplished in a step-by-step manner through mechanism actuated by the typewriter on which the notes are being transcribed.

A further object of our invention is to so design the machine and selectthe reciprocating or rocking part of the typewriter from which the power to actuate our. machine is derived that the speed of travel im parted to the notes shall be as nearly identical with the speed at which the notes are read as may be.

A still further object is to provide a device of this character which is of such con struction that the same may be readily attached to and operated by any of the well known makes of typewriters now on the market; and to so construct it that it will be capable of being placed on either side of the typewriter with which it is to be used'thus accommodating it to the preference of the individual user or to the requirements of the construction of any particular make of machine.

Other objects and advantages of our invention will later appear-in this specification.

In the three sheets of drawings accompanying'this application and forming a part hereof Figure 1 is a perspective view. of a com-' plete stenotype note holder embodying our invention as attached to a typewriter, only suflicient parts of the latter being illustrated to show the manner of connection of our device thereto and the means by which it is actuated;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail in side elevation of one of the upper reels or spool holders, a portion of the ratchet housing appearing in vertical section to show the ratchet pawl;

Fig. 3 is a similar view of the lower spool holder on the opposite side of the machine;

Fig. 4 is a still larger detail in end view of the ratchet housing and ratchet as viewed from the inner side, the housing again appearing in section;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective of a portion of the frame showing a spool holder receiving socket;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the machine, the upper spool and holders, portions of the frame and of the stenotype notes being broken away to disclose the rear parts;

Fig. 7, a section taken on the line 7-7, Fig. 2; and

Fig. 8, a section on the line 88, Fig. 6, looking in the direction of the arrow drawn across said line.

As previously stated our machine is so designed as to be capable of use on either side of the typewriter, the assemblage illustrated adapting it for use on the right hand side of the typewriting machine. In the general desc'ription, for convenience, the parts will be designated as the right hand or left hand parts as they appear in the drawing without reference for the time being to whether or not when the machine is reversed they will still occupy the same relative positions and the description is to be read with this explanation in mind.

Referring to the drawings, 10 indicates the. frame of the device which may be conveniently composed as shown of a pair of triangular side members joined by spanner rods. Each side member is provided with two downwardly slotted sockets 11 (see Fig. 5) each of which is adapted at its bottom to provide a bearing for one of the spool holders. These spool holders are all similar in certain features and all differ slightly in others; each comprises a disk 12 adapted to abut against the end of a spool and act as a guide for the paper reeled thereon and each having projecting therefrom a pin 14 which is adapted to look a spool against rotation relative to the disk.

The spool holder for the upper left hand side, shown in Fig. 2, comprises a screwheaded stud 15 provided with a reduced screw-threaded shank 16 which ends in a shoulder against which the disk 12 is adapted to abut and against which the disk is firmly held by an interiorly threaded cap 17 screwed on the shank 16. This cap also forms an axle adapted to enter a centrally disposed socket in the spools and thus to support the same. Non-rotatably mounted on the stud 15 outside of the disk 12 there is a pair of sleeves 18 joined into an integral structure by a collar 19., The spool shaped structure thus formed is adapted to straddle a side member ofthe frame and retain the spool holder against lateral movement, the collar 19 falling into the bottom of the slot 11 and revolving therein. A ratchet wheel 20 is non-rotatably mounted on the study 15 and the ratchet housing 22 is revolubly mounted on the stud 15. The ratchet hous ing carries pivotally mounted therein the pawl 23 which is adapted to. engage the teeth of the ratchet and is normally forced into such engagement by the spring 24..

This spring 24 is carried by a stud 25 which is slidably mounted. in. a. circumferential slot 26 in the housing, the friction between. the studf and the casingbeing suflicient toretain the stud, in any position in which it. may be manually adjusted. The free end ofv the spring 24 is bent outward at 27' and passes out through another circumferential slotin the casingv for a purpose later to. be described. The casing 22 is providediwith. a radially projecting lug 29 which forms a means for connecting thereto a link 30 to be later described.

The lower left hand. spool holder is like the upper left, hand one just described. except that it carries no ratchet or ratchet; casing and therefore is shorter.

The lower right hand spool. holder is shown in Fig, 3.. This holderis preferably constructed with a. square stud ending on. the outer slde 111 a knurled knob 32. and. on. the lnner. side 1111 a round threaded. shank 38.

on which a cap 34 is adapted. tobe screwed. In this form the disk 12 and the spool shaped retaining member 18 are also squared the lower except that inithiscasethe gear 36 is omitted.

The, link 30, which i preferably round, is received in a similarly shaped socket inthe-incmber 3.7 in which it is held in. longitudinally and angularly adjustable position by the set-screw 38. The member 37 is pivotally connected at its lower end to a U- shaped member which is adapted to pass under the side member 39 of a typewriter and which U-shaped member is provided on its inner end with a socket containing member 40 adapted to be passed over the end of a spacer bar of a typewriter and to be secured thereto by a set-screw 41. The horizontal portion of the U-shaped member is composed of cooperating slotted sections 42, 43, which, with the adjusting bolts 44, provide means for adjustingthe U-shaped memher to accommodate it to use with various makes of typewritersthe distance which it is to span varying in different machines.

The portion of the machine heretofore described is that which serves to actuate thenotes in step-by-step manner as they are transcribed, and. this part of the machine is capable of use alone without the note winding mechanism to be later described, the rewinding of; the notes-in such case being accomplished manually. We, however, prefer to add the mechanism now to be explained, which mechanism serves to wind: the notes on the lower spool and thus to expose that portion. of the notes first taken. The lower members of the frame 10 are each provided with, a projection 46 which contains a. rearwardly and downwardly extending slot adaptedv to receive and. j ournal thereversible shaft 47. This shaft carries at one side a gear. 48 adapted to mesh with the gear 36. 100 and, in the middle a, gear 49 adapted to mesh with a gear 50 on any suitable motive device, Thatshown. is a spring motor 51 mounted. on a; shaft 52 journaled. in the frame and provided with squared ends with 105 which a crank or the like 53 may cooperate for winding and. with the ratchet mechanism 54 for preventing unwinding, Themotor isalso provided with a brake 55 for controlling its speed, the brake being nor- 110 mally held in operative position in engagement with the motor casing by the spring 56- and. being adapted. to be released by pressure exerted against the sprin free end 27 of the spring 24' is then pressed to slide the spring to the right in Fig. 4 andthe inner end of the spring 24 engages theshoulder 57. on the pawlv23 raising it and hold ng it out of; engagement with the ratchet, thus rendering for the time being this portion of the machine inoperative. Then the free end of the stenotype notes is attached to the lower spool and the brake 55 depressed to allow the spring motor to reroll the notes on the lower spool. After this rewinding has taken place the shaft 47 is moved longitudinally to disengage the gears 36 and 48 and the pawl 23 is returned to the position shown in Fig. 4. The machine is now ready for the transcribing of the notes. Each downward movement of the spacer bar will turn, through the chain of mechanism described, the casing 22 through a sufiicient angle to allow the pawl 23 to fall over one tooth of the ratchet, the friction of the spools in their mountings being sufficient to prevent a backward turn thereof during this movement. Then when the spacer bar rises under the action of the spring of the typewriter the casing 22 will, through the engagement of the pawl 23 with its ratchet, cause the upper spool to turn a sufficient amount to wind one line of the notes on the upper spool. Inasmuch as stenotype notes average substantially one line to a word and since the note holding mechanism is, through the means selected for its actuation, only moved at the end of each word we have provided'a means whereby the travel of the notes will be substantially always equal to the speed at which they are read and transcribed. If the winding be too slow, however, the notes can be readily advanced by turning the upper spool forward; or, if too fast, they can be wound back by merely freeing the pawl 23 and turning the knurled knob 32.

If it is desired to change our machine from one standing at the right hand side of the typewriter as shown to one for the opposite side of the machine, no new or different parts are needed. In such a case the Spool holding members are all reversed to the opposite side of the machine from which they now occupy and the shaft 47 turned end for end, the fact of the gear 49 being in the-middle of the shaft permitting this. The pawl and ratchet mechanism must now also be reversed on the stud 15 in order that the travel of the upper reel shall be in the proper direction. This may readily be accomplished by removing the cap 17 and all the parts which it retains 011 the stud and reassembling the spool holder with the housing 22 and its contents in reversed position. This same result could also be obtained without the necessity of disassembling the spool holder by providing the housing 22 with two ratchets and pawls, one of the latter being always retained in inoperative position by its spring 24. The adjustment provided by the link 30 and the sleeve member 37 enables the connection between the typewriter and the note holder to be adjusted to accommodate the latter to use with varying machines and on varying arrangements of typewriter desks and also readily permits of the disconnection of the machines if the typewriter is to be closed up in a folding desk.

If the typewriter and copy holder stand free upon a desk or table it is desirable to provide a separable connecting means 60 for holding them in their proper relative position. This may be any design of clamp carried by either the typewriter or copy holder frame and detachably secured to the frame of the other machine.

If desired as an aid in keeping the place on the notes pointers 61 carried by the side members of the frame and extending over the notes may be provided.

lVhile we have described our invention in detail in the foregoing specification in the best embodiment of it with which we are now familiar, we do not desire to be considered as limited to these details. It will be obvious, for instance, that other rocking parts of the typewriter may be selected as actuating means for our copy holder and that these and other changes may be made without departing from our invention the scope of which we have defined in the appended claims.

In the appended claims we have employed the term reel to indicate the combination of twp spool holders and the associated spool or an equivalent therefor and the claims should be read in View of this explanation.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1; In a device of the class described, a symmetrical note holder frame, a typewriter, a pair of reversible reels carried by said frame, a ratchet-movement reversibly secured to one-of said reels, and a link connection of adjustable length connecting the spacer bar of said typewriter to the said ratchet.

2. In apparatus of the character described, the combination of a rotary reel, means for the rotary support of a spool, a device for winding a strip from a spool supported by said means, upon the reel, mechanism for converting an intermittent motion of an actuating element into a step-by-step rotation of the spool-supporting means to rewind the strip upon the spool, and adjustable appliances controlling the operation of said mechanism and said device to permit either one to perform its respective function unrestrained by the other.

3. In apparatus of the character described, the combination of a rotary reel, means for the rotary support of a spool, a motor, a gearing for rotating the reel by the action of the motor, including a member which is adjustable to break the operative relation between the motor and the reel to permit of independent rotation of the latter, and mech- Crr anism for converting an intermittent motion of an actuating element into a step-by-step rotation of the spool-supporting means includ ing a movement which is adjustable to break the operative relation between the actuating element and the spool-supporting means, to permit of independent rotation of the latter; 4. The combination with the spacing-bar of a typewriter, of a rotary spool-support, a rotary reel, a device for winding astrip from a spool on the support onto the reel, mechanism to convert each reciprocation of the spacing bar into a corresponding rotary movement of the spool-support to rewind the strip upon the spool, and adjustable appliances controlling the operation of the device and. the mechanism; to permit either one to perform its respective function unrestrained support to convert each reciprocation of the spacing bar into a corresponding rotary movement thereoflj In testimony whereof we have hereunto afiixed: oun signatures.

NELLE M. THOMPSON. EDWARD F. OLEARY.

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